Experimental and numerical simulation of surfactant-assisted oil recovery in tight fractured carbonate reservoir cores

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 469-482

  Alamdari, Baharak B ^a,b   Kiani, Mojtaba ^a,b   Kazemi, Hossein ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b TIORCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE CORES; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; CORE DESIGN; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FIELD TRIAL; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FRACTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; FRACTURE OPENING; FRACTURED CARBONATE RESERVOIRS; FRACTURED CARBONATES; MICELLAR SOLUTION; MIDDLE EAST; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL RECOVERIES; OUTER SURFACE; ROCK MATRIX; SHORT CORE; SURFACTANT FLOODS; VERTICAL AXIS; VERTICAL SURFACE; WATER FLOOD;

CENTRIFUGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EPOXY RESINS; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; MIXED CONVECTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 84864006675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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